NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–April 5, 2016 SECRETARY KERRY: Mike, thank you very, very much. Thanks, more importantly, for your extraordinary leadership over the years. I think everybody here knows that Mike Bloomberg has been a pioneer on so many different things, critical issues, and concepts – a great business person and entrepreneur of extraordinary[Read More…]
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Retired Judge, Attorney and Psychologist Indicted in $600 Million Social Security Fraud Scheme
Thousands of Kentucky Claimants Improperly Received Disability Benefits Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–April 5, 2016. A retired administrative law judge, a lawyer and a psychologist were charged in a federal indictment unsealed today for their roles in a scheme to fraudulently obtain more than $600 million in federal disability payments for thousands of[Read More…]
21 Defendants Charged with Fraudulently Enabling Hundreds of Foreign Nationals to Remain in the United States Through Fake ‘Pay to Stay’ New Jersey College
“College” Created as Part of Homeland Security Investigations Sting Operation NEW JERSEY–(ENEWSPF)–April 5, 2016. Twenty-one brokers, recruiters and employers from across the United States who allegedly conspired with more than 1,000 foreign nationals to fraudulently maintain student visas and obtain foreign worker visas through a “pay to stay” New Jersey[Read More…]
Owner of Detroit Home Health Care Agency Sentenced to 57 Months in Prison for His Role in $3.4 Million Health Care Fraud Scheme
MICHIGAN–(ENEWSPF)–April 5, 2016. The owner and operator of a Detroit-area home health care agency was sentenced to 57 months in prison today for his participation in a $3.4 million health care fraud scheme. Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Barbara L. McQuade[Read More…]
Remarks by President Obama on the Economy, April 5, 2016
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–April 5, 2016 – 12:15 P.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT: Good afternoon, everybody. I’m horning in on Josh’s time just for a hot second. As we learned last week, America’s economy added 215,000 jobs in March. That means that our businesses extended the longest streak of private sector job creation[Read More…]
Area Experts to Discuss Future of TIFs and 2016 Fiscal Crisis on April 14 at Roosevelt University
CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–April 5, 2016. Area experts will weigh in on the future of tax increment financing (TIF) in Chicago in relation to the city’s growing fiscal crisis at 5 p.m. on April 14 at the Gerald Fogelson Forum on Real Estate at Roosevelt University, 425 S. Wabash Ave., Chicago. As discussions[Read More…]
Roosevelt University Montesquieu Forum on April 14-15 to Feature Views of International Scholars
CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–April 5, 2016. David Womersley, the Thomas Warton Professor of English Literature and editor of The Review of English Studies at the University of Oxford, will give the keynote speech at the Roosevelt University Montesquieu Forum conference on philosophy and historiography in the Eighteenth Century. Womersley’s speech will be at[Read More…]
NASA Progresses Toward SpaceX Resupply Mission to Space Station
The Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM), developed for NASA by Bigelow Aerospace, is lifted into SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft for transport to the International Space Station when the spacecraft launches at 4:43 p.m. Friday, April 8, from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS) in Florida Credits:[Read More…]
Senator Bernie Sanders Applauds New Rules to Curb Corporate Tax Dodges
WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–April 5, 2016 – Sen. Bernie Sanders issued the following statement after the Department of the Treasury issued new rules that would curb the tax dodging practice known as corporate inversions: “I am pleased that the Treasury has announced new rules to block profitable American companies from gaming the system[Read More…]
Senator Elizabeth Warren Questions Former Fed Regulator Whose Failures Helped Cause the Financial Crisis
Warren Questions Witness About Views on Consumer Protection: “Given your track record at the Fed, why should anyone take you seriously now? Washington, DC –(ENEWSPF)–April 5, 2016. Today, United States Senator Elizabeth Warren attended a Senate Banking Committee hearing about assessing the effects of consumer finance regulations. At the[Read More…]
